of the Indonesian consulate general of Hamburg is one of few Gamelan groups in Germany of this kind. In Indonesia, Gamelan music sounds to a variety of occasions such as religious festivities, weddings or births and to dances and shadow plays. Hallo Festspiele will be opposing this rich in tradition performance to the seemingly futuristic equipment of Hamburg-based composer and instrument maker Ferdinand Försch in the power plant’s Ballsaal.

KETU

create a dark, ritual and highly intense musical world. Alex Zhang Hungtai (formerly known as Dirty Beaches), David Maranha, Gabriel Ferrandini and Pedro Sousa know each other from Lisbon and will be compiling their programme over the course of a week in one of the stunning rooms of the power plant.

Ellen Fullman & Konrad Sprenger

Ellen Fullman has worked on her imposing installation ‘Long String Instrument’ for the past 30 years. For her sound sculpture the internationally acclaimed artist will strain
70-foot (21-meter) music wire through the room. She strides along the wires with rosin-coated fingers producing a chorus of organ-like partials.
For Hallo Festspiele she will perform solo as well as in collaboration with German artsist and producer Konrad Sprenger.

Puce Mary

is the solo moniker of Copenhagen-based sound artist Frederikke Hoffmeier.
Her performances and releases mirror her diverse work practices ranging from structured sound collages, experimental music to industrial noise. Trafohalle can brace itself for an explosive and apocalyptic live set.

Ferdinand Försch & Friends

Ferdinand Försch is a musician, composer, artist, instrument maker and video-artist from Hamburg. He invented and built far more than 100 sound works. In 1997 he founded Hamburg’s legendary ‘KlangHaus’, an experimental forum for interdisciplinary sound art. For Hallo Festspiele he presents his sound sculptures and interpretations for the first time with a five-person ensemble – a premiere project that was especially founded for Hallo.

Contributors: Patrick Bartsch, Ferdinand Försch, Lila-Zoe Krauß, Franziska Olenhusen, Hannes Wienert.
PS: Ferdinand is urgently looking for a space for his KlangHaus. If you know of anything, please get in touch: hallo@hallo-festspiele.de

»zero decibels«

is a music and theatre installation developed by Hamburg-based composer Daniel Dominguez Teruel inside Kraftwerk Bille’s Wandlerwerk. For his research on compositional questions, Dominguez Teruel again and again visited anechoic spaces and particle accelerators. Emerging from his physical and psychological experience gathered, he and a small ensemble of fat-bellied pigeons disclose the walk-through installation zero decibel over several floors of Wandlerwerk.

– a virtuoso and autodidact of the acoustic and the electrical guitar – juggles with various genres, that he combines to something new. Thus a distinctive uniqueness is created, always on the look-out for new musical ways. Lobos guitar-genius leads him to play gigs all over the world – one of them in the so-called Ballsaal of the power plant.

Booty Carrell & Viktor Marek

are two living legends of Hamburg’s nightlife. there isn’t a lot that has to be said about them; the golden hearts of vinyl belly dances and electronically blinking night walks will bring gloss and brilliance into the old and dusty Trafohalle of the power plant.

Pedro Sousa

is one of the key figures of the budding experimental music scene of Lisbon. With his saxophone he effortlessly ranges between jazz, rock, free improvisation and electronic music. For Hallo Festspiele he will use various saxophones at once: by means of an air compressor and a custom made mouth piece for several tenor and baritone saxophones he will create a vast drone, that will cause Kraftwerk Bille to resonate over the course of a few hours.

Patrick Kabré

will be playing at the spot of the furthest view over Hamburg with his far-carrying voice, various instruments and two other musicians. In 2012 Kabré was nominated as the best newcomer in Burkina Faso, in 2013 he participated at the FIMU of Belfort and went on his first European tour. He collaborates with numerous artists such as Lokua Kanza, Richard Bona, Ray Léma and Etienne M’Bappé.

David Helbich

is a guest from Brussels that works on stages, paper, online and in the physical, public space. He understands hearing as a performative act and his focus thus lies in the activation of the listener – the audience. His works have recently been shown at Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and at UnionDocs (New York), among others. For Kraftwerk Bille Helbich is developing a version of his participatory ‘Scores for the Body, Building and Soul’. Applications wanted via hallo@hallo-festspiele.de

A lot has been going on since the last »Hallo Festspiele« : Together with the ideas and energy of many people, Schaltzentrale opened as an experimental and artistically orientated neighbourhood bureau beginning of this year. This is where a place for participation and exchange was created: A longterm space as a first result of the temporary use of Kraftwerk Bille by the Hallo Festspiele as it was wished for from the very beginning.

But we are not done yet. There is still a lot to be discovered inside and around Kraftwerk Bille: This time it will go up some stairs after using the outside areas (2015) and impressive halls (2016): Hallo Festspiele vertical – Hallo Festspiele 2017 are inviting you to experience spaces with your ears on five different floors in total inside Kraftwerk Bille. For the third edition composers, musicians and DJs are invited to come to Hammerbrook to develop and present concerts, installations, performances and DJ sets.

To facilitate the needed preparation time for the participating artists on site and make decent working conditions possible for team members, we decided to take a minimum price for the entrance this year. The price still allows you to spend your pocket money on a long night with many drinks. Schaltzentrale will be open during the festival with free admission and is inviting you to a neighborly programme.

Next year the Festspiele will move on the water, so already keep your water wings prepared!

from Paris oscillates between experimental kraut rock and handmade techno, between his drum set, the synthesisers and primed respirator. With this very specific set up of his he fills the booming Trafohalle up to the ceiling with mechanical sounds – as a hi-fi-solo-orchestra for lo-fi-music.

Thomas Baldischwyler

Is the founder of the record label TRAVEL BY GOODS and is known as DJ DC SCHUHE from Hamburg’s Golden Pudel Club, among elsewhere. “There is a dialog between him and the dancers that seems much more vivid and musical to me, than the perfectly oiled Berlin techno machinery. ”, a De:Bug author once said about him. For his dj set in Trafohalle he will vacate the palm trees of Villa Massimo in Rome, of which he is currently holding an artist residency.

Sven Kacirek

stacks percussive sounds to complex patterns. Although he doesn’t use any synthesisers to do so, the sound can be so electronic at times, that for Sven Kacirek – according to the label Pingipung Records – the in actual fact paradoxical genre term of ‘acoustic electronica’ could be invented. The delicate sound layers conquer the high spaces of the upmost floors of Wandlerwerk and flow into a collaboration with Patrick Kabré.

Stararchitekten und umschichtendig even deeper into the unfathomed world of the silver C-profiles, a dry constructionmaterial judged stepmotherly. On the base of prior experiments they will be constructing a centrepiece for abidance, dancing and information for Hallo Festspiele around Trafohalle.

Schaltzentrale

is the name of the experimental and artistically orientated neighbourhood bureau that evolved from ‘Hallo Festspiele”. During Hallo Festspiele a neighbourly programme from exhibitions, to an oasis to live-vinyl-pressing is offered there. Free admission!

Said sur la place

is a rapper, producer and dj and describes himself as a “lover of the finest in the world of finer things”. For Hallo Festspiele he packed vinyl und an mpc live set.

Perera Elsewhere

creates a misty setting for her songs: when involving organic elements that coexist most smoothly with electronic elements, she still succeeds in arranging enough space for her striking and yet soothing vocal passages that will warm the container by the water.

Martin Moritz

And two of his friends are practicing the Sutsche Soundsystem for electronic deceleration since 2008. He also hosts the afro-club Kalakuta at Golem. Also, a screw is named after him.

Lina & Nele

The talent of sisters Lina Ventura (Berlin) and Niki Nebel (Hamburg) is bringing together pieces of music of diverging genre and speed. After the cosmic fusing of electronica, neodisco, wave, cosmic, hip hop and UK bass in Trafohalle of last year’s Hallo gig, no less than a nuclear melt down at one of the power plant’s secret spots is to be expected from them this year.

L Twillsin her live performances, wanders to the limits of the stage, her vocal extent and the emotional capacity of the audience. As a Perpetua Mobile of the emotional scale she weaves her beats into an electronic barrel organ of murmuring melancholy with a perfect show-smile. Being the first artist-in-residency of Schaltzentrale, she knows the rooms by heart already. For her set at Hallo Festspiele she is developing in a room inside one of those rooms.

King Fehler (Knarf Rellöm & DJ Patex)

deliver witty lyrics about booming basses and electronic experiments. Being set members of the Hallo-ensemble by now, that have wandered all sorts of rooms singing – and are legends in Hamburg anyway – they will this time be landing at a later hour at a place that invites for dance and sweat.

Kara-Lis Coverdale is heralded as “one of the most exciting young composers in North America” by the Guardian. Her surreal pieces evolve from the polymorph interaction of synthesised samples and keyboards. For Hallo Festspiele the classical pianist and organist is developing an electroacoustic composition, using the gritty and high-ceilinged Wandlerwerkraum as an acoustic filter.

Hot and Potato

fell in love with music while having a ride among the US coast areas. Driven by Hip Hop influences and sympathies for delicious tastes - hot likes potatoes style. They decided to become a DJ team early this year and since then try to find a smooth dancing style to their music (girls like it). Eastcoast vs. westcoast with hip hop, trap, pop & classics.

Hallo Fricassée

brings all Hallo-people together on the record players. Following the tradition of the open decks, the team will thereby inaugurate the newly created festival centrepiece.

Gabriel Ferrandini

roams in the avant-jazz scene and has already worked with musicians such as Thurston Moore, Peter Evans, Nate Wooley, John Butcher and Evan Parker. For Hallo Festspiele, the drummer will premiere a piece that dedicates the sub-bass area of his instrument to live electronica.

Dynamo Dreesen und SVN

will be playing as their live project under the name of Dresvn. Apart from the music of their labels SUED (SVN) and Acido Records (Dynamo Dreesen), the duo is known for its experimental, interlaced and spherical club music. The dj set hence promises to let the old power plant lift off into the nocturnal cosmos.

Don Popon

is a passionate record collector. The ‘Gruf’ decides freely, what may enter the record case and what not. He loves Alte Schule and Back to the Future, boogie, jazz, hip hop & afro beat. Very prominent on his radar are regions between Rio de Janeiro, Bronx, Tokyo, Sibiria, Mauritius and Hamburg-upon-Bille.

B for Bambo
A for Alektro
R for Rop
S for Sindie
O for Ounk and
I for Io-Wave

therefore music with
gitarre: Anja Dietmann
synthesizer: Fion Pellacini
drums: Martin Muth
vocals: all of them, also in the Trafohalle

Alexander Schubert’s

musical background was the non-academic club context at first, in which he dedicated himself in different projects to electronica, electroacoustic free jazz and noise hardcore. Live electronic compositions belong to his field of work as much as the sketch of software setups and the sensor-based extension of instruments. After an immersive sound installation at last year’s Festspiele, he will this year play a dj set.

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